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Product Design Lead

TEKsystems
$60.00 - $70.00 / hr
United States, North Carolina, Charlotte
Nov 14, 2024
Description: The Product Design Manager will serve as a leader and contributor for the UX Design team ensuring the team delivers best-in-class digital products. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical as well as highly creative ideas to a design exercise. This candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative product delivery environment - and, a thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies Primary Responsibilities Leads and manages a UX team, understanding and identifying a project's needs, performing research and analysis, setting objectives and guidelines, liaising with product and business stakeholder, and presenting final experience design solutions and recommendations. As a UX leader, it is essential to lead and encourage staff to reach product goals while enforcing the company's policies and regulations Expert capabilities in the design and creation of thoughtful, memorable, and impactful user experiences Drive full-cycle product design lifecycle exercises to inspire and create conversation about user experience outcomes Strong understanding of functional and visual design definition, direction and execution Strong understanding of mobile-first application experiences and impacts human factors Interaction design definition, direction and execution Information architecture and ability to craft an experience based on business goals and objectives Design effort level scoping (landscape, scope, complexity) Contributing to internal and external relationships as needed per project need Strong ability to partner with product and technical stakeholders to understand constraints, limitations, and ability to challenge boundaries Researching & applying interaction design trends Researching & applying mobile experience best practices Perform in an Agile / SCRUM environment, with proven ability to problem solve Drives and contribute to research efforts: both generative and evaluative studies Performs other duties as assigned. Experience 10+ years of experience in user experience design. 3+ years of experience in team leadership (with or without direct management). Please include a portfolio Essential Skills Awareness and practical understanding of current technologies, and their application and relevance to digital experiences. Solid communication and interpersonal skills. Thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional environment. Ability to influence others and provide design thought leadership. Actively listens, hears, and understands what is said and not said, and with nuanced comprehension of meaning and intent. Teamwork: Develops and sustains effective and cooperative working relationships with direct reports, peers, managers and other internal or external stakeholders. Flexibility/adaptability (ability to change direction based upon team and stakeholder consensus and manage multiple projects at one time, while meeting aggressive deadlines). Experience creating, implementing and using design systems. Comfortable managing a large library of design assets for different platforms. Proficiency with tools such as Sketch, Figma, Miro, Mural, Jira and the Agile Methodology., etc. Familiar with design thinking and facilitating workshops. Accustomed to working the full product design lifecycle. Unwavering attention to detail when it comes to visual design as well as asset, file, and layer organization. *An online portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking and creative problem solving on branding, visual UI and UX efforts. About TEKsystems: We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.